Detecting human-driven deviations from trajectories in landscape composition and configuration

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1479-1487

  Proulx, Raphaël ^a,b   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Contagion; Disturbance; Landscape composition; Landscape configuration; Landscape development; Neutral model; Spatial scale; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SLOPE; URBANIZATION;

CANADA;

EID: 78049263495     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9523-9     Document Type: Article

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